Family Quote by Christine Zolendz

“I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and…

— Sara Taylor

“I knew now that we were never going to be a proper family again.”

— Caroline Green

“But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that I knew,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“. I guess she couldn’t think of anything to say. But the truth was, I was doing OK at that point. Life was unfolding…

— Lee Child

“(...) And through it all I thought of my mother and the lives she didn’t get to live.”

— Sam J. Miller

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“There's something comforting in that. To go down as a family. No one left behind.”

— Gayle Forman

“...even though she assured me two people could be a family, ours didn't seem complete.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“People always ask me that, how it feels to be an orphan. I don't know. I want to ask them how it feels to…

— David J. Kirk

“You're just a mom, You feel useless and essential at the same time. You feel like everyone is doing a better job than you…

— Bunmi Laditan

“As long as I knew I was going to be a great mom, everyone else could suck it.”

— Nicole Polizzi

“...after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.…

— Aimee Bender